didn't know. All the while he
was talking, I was asking
myself “what am I doing with
my life?” I had just turned
thirteen at that time, and I
kept asking myself “what am I
doing with my life? I want to
have a light, what is my
purpose?” He kept talking
and at some point, the light
came back on and he went to
the parlor to charge his
devices but then I was just
there in that room by myself. I
was still crying, so I prayed I
said "God I need you to help
me, I want to come out of
this". I felt that inner drawing
at the depth of my person,
that I was meant to be more,
I've always had that
consciousness from when I
was a child that I was made
for something more, I knew I
couldn't live like this, because
it was like an out of body
experience. Then after that
experience, I began to meet
some other people who
helped me.
During the long holiday my
dad enrolled us (my younger
brother and I) with this lady
who was supposed to teach us
mathematics. I had problem
with mathematics and the
lady would teach us
mathematics and ensured that
she gave us assignments in
the book of Proverbs. So we
would have to read Proverbs
and come back and explain to
her the whole chapter each
day.
It was from there I began to
love God's word and I would
just study and study. But this is
the thing... It was very
fundamental in my personal
growth. So this is the thing, I
wanted to be known for
something more than my
circumstances, but at this
point, I was fourteen and
everybody knew that I was
that boy from the broken
home, but I wanted them to
know that I was not that boy
anymore. So it gave me what
I would call a dangerous kind
of hunger that could not be
denied.
I enrolled for the after school
academy at Ikapture networks
and then I was hungry. I don't
know how to explain it but I
was hungry, I knew I was
SOMETIMES
WE DON'T
REALISE
HOW LESS
OF A HUMAN
WE ARE..
going to be something.
I was going to be something
more and nothing would stop
me and I was fourteen and in
this class with people who
were 21,23,24, I didn't have
to struggle with this new me, I
just knew that this was me. I
just had to live from inside
out. I graduated the best
student from that set, I went
on to volunteer with sparks
shops and in one week I came
up with a solution for their
customer service crisis. After
my one week internship they
gave me a gift as a company
and I was just fourteen. After
Ikapture, I moved on to
something else.
I said I was going to start a
business, I made up my mind
I was going to start my own
business and so Ikapture
paired me with "La'shakara" to
be my mentor. I went there
then I told them all the plans I
had and the owner looked at
me and said, “Come work
with me for a while and then
you can go start your
business.” I agreed. I thought
he was joking, but the next
day he made complimentary
cards for me and the
following
day he said, "You are the
marketing director."
I was fourteen at that time
and I was a marketing
director for this company that
makes shirts. He wasn't giving
me shirts to sell to people, he
was giving me shirts as
samples for me to go out and
bring him contracts. I took a
laptop and wrote letters, I put
together proposals and he
gave me a blank cheque. He
said, “Whatever you need, tell
me.” He gave me his laptop
and said, "Take this home
write a letter and come and
show me, I will look through
and then edit it."
To cut the long story short in
one year I made1.5 million
naira for the company and in
this one year I had engaged
nal year students in Unical,
and I even went to bid for the
contract for Mary Slessor's
100 years anniversary and we
got the job. It was going to
cost100 million naira, there
were many other companies
that came to bid but they
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